NHMF Frameworx 2024 - Soft Facility Management

The members of the NHMF including the Northern Ireland Housing Executive represent more than 80% of the UK's housing stock. NHMF (NPC) Ltd is a Contracting Authority under regulation 2 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and a central purchasing body under regulation 37 of those Regulations.

NHMF Frameworx is the trading name of NHMF (NPC) Ltd ("NPC") which has been established by the National Housing Maintenance Forum Ltd. The framework agreements subject to this notice are made available for use by the registered providers of social housing including the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and all other member and associate member contracting authorities on NPC'S register of members at the time of the publication of this FTS notice for this procurement operating across England, Wales, Scotland and/or Northern Ireland including their wholly owned subsidiaries.

The register of members is obtainable from nhmfframeworx.org.uk/register ↗ of members

The Framework Agreements subject to this notice are also made available for use by any other registered social housing provider www.gov.uk/government/publicati… ↗) , Welsh registered social landlord (gov.wales/registered-social-la… ↗), Scottish registered social landlord (www.housingregulator.gov.scot/register-of-social-l… ↗), Northern Irish registered housing association (www.communities-ni.gov.uk/articles/housing-reg… ↗), any local authority as defined in the Local Government Act 1972 for public authorities in England and Wales or as defined in the Local Government Act (Scotland) 1973 or as defined in the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 and any housing Arm's Length Management Organisation (ALMO) that either (a) becomes a member of NPC during the period of the Framework Agreements by becoming a subscriber and user of the M3NHF Schedule of Rates for Responsive and Void Property Works, the M3NHF Schedule of Rates for Planned Maintenance and Property Reinvestment and the M3NHF Repairs Ordering Schedule; or (b) becomes an associate member of NPC during the period of the Framework Agreements by entering into an Authorising Associate Member Agreement with NPC

The Contracting Authority considers that these contracts may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs), any selection of tenderers will however be based solely on the criteria set out in the procurement documents. NPC is administering this procurement on behalf of its Members.

The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any membership to any framework pursuant to this procurement exercise and/or to abandon this procurement exercise at any time and/or to award membership of a framework for only part of the Works at its sole discretion

The Contracting Authority shall have no liability whatsoever to any applicant or tenderer as a result of its exercise of that discretion.

For the avoidance of doubt, all costs incurred by any applicant and/or tenderer before signature of any Call-off Contract shall be incurred entirely ay that applicant/tenderer's risk.

No guarantee can be given that any business is generated under any awarded framework agreement or call off contract, nor can any guarantee be given that any framework agreement or call-off contract may be put in place in relation to this procurement.

Economic Operators are to note that Call-off Contracts will take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority and its members relating to economic. Social and environmental well being.

The frameworks will be divided into Lots, which will be finalised following the completion of this market engagement, Details of the Lots will be set out in the various Contract Notices.

The engagement with the market will be initially be a questionnaire for completion by interested participants, which may be followed by telephone and online conference calls to elicit further information from respondents.

All documentation can be downloaded from etenders.nhmfframeworx.org.uk ↗

This portal is for the downloading of the draft procurement documentation, submission of tenders and communicating requests for and responses to clarifications.

All requests for procurement documentation, communications and submission of tenders must be made via the Portal, which can be accessed at etenders.nhmfframeworx.org.uk ↗

After creating an account on eTenders@NHMF-Frameworx, users will receive an email with a link to activate their account. Once activated and logged in , users will need the following code to register for the procurement documentation: NPC1077 Additional information: The questionnaire together with supporting information can be downloaded from etenders.nhmfframeworx.org.uk ↗

This is NPC's e-procurement portal (the "portal") for downloading and submission of procurement and tender documentation and communicating requests and responses to clarifications. All requests for the questionnaire, communications and submission of completed questionnaires must be made via the Portal, which can be accessed at etenders.nhmfframeworx.org.uk ↗

After activating an account on the portal, users will receive an email with a link to activate their account. Once activated and logged in, users will need the following code to register for their questionnaire:

NPC1077